Profesor Robert W. Winner de Derecho y Humanidades y director del Centro Orville H. Shell Jr. para el Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Yale. Es autor de un gran número de libros, entre los que se encuentran: Legitimacy and History: Self-Government in American Constitutional Therory; The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America; The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship; Law and Love: The Trial of King Lear; Putting Liberalism in tis Place; Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil; Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, Sovereignty; Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation y Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty.